Comments on: Comic-Con: Carla Speed McNeil on the Difference Between Fantasy and Sci-Fihttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/24/comic-con-carl-speed-mcneil-on-the-difference-or-lack-thereof-between-fantasy-and-scifi/
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.5By: Eric Wolffhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/24/comic-con-carl-speed-mcneil-on-the-difference-or-lack-thereof-between-fantasy-and-scifi/#comment-2794
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:13:16 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1456#comment-2794My understanding of what she said is that it’s all about the origins of the story. Super hero stories are more often about politics, or sociology, but they have sciencey stuff thrown in, like the bits about being from space. Where as hard SciFi imagines a world if current science continues on its current trajectory, or a world in which certain rules can be broken.
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:13:57 +0000http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1456#comment-2793Hmmm, I really wish I was out there, I would love to get her to elaborate on Superman as a work of fantasy not SciFi. As a general rule, I would put most works featuring extra terrestrials in the SciFi category, but tonally Superman is clearly distinct from most of the members of that group, even though it would technically fall there.
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